Global Warming Ice Blocks Coal Death Ship

MUSKEGON, MI – The coal-carrying Great Lakes freighter The Buffalo came into an iced-over Muskegon Lake Monday morning, Dec. 16 with a load for the B.C. Cobb Generating Plant.

Early season ice on Muskegon Lake made it a bit difficult to get the Buffalo in position to unload at the Cobb dock on the far east end of the lake, according to Consumers Energy spokesman Roger Morgenstern.

Just before noon, Morgenstern said that the captain of the 635-foot Buffalo was attempting to turn the ship around in the ice-jammed lake to back into the Cobb plant slip. To assist, Andrie Specialized’s 75-foot tuboat Meridith Ashton was being sent to assist.

Early-season ice on Muskegon Lake creating issues for B. C. Cobb coal shipments | MLive.com